IC 4859
IC 4859
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
241 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 241 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4859 as it looked roughly 241 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 6784AElliptical8.9 million ly
apartIC 4862Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4860Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6776Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4866Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4752Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4862Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4860Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6776Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4866Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4752Spiral23 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).